Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. Go to Quote / Comment
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. Go to Quote / Comment
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin. Go to Quote / Comment
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness—presently Every bed is narrow. Go to Quote / Comment
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. Go to Quote / Comment